1. One entry per person per day.
2. One vote per person per day.
3. No bumping your entry.
4. No vote stacking or asking for other MM members to vote for you.
5. Voting starts at 10 am the day of and ends 9 pm that same day. (MM time.)
6. No voting for an image you participated in creating.
7. To vote, quote the entry you wish to vote for and type "Vote".
8. Mature 18 + images are allowed but must contain a link and not the actual image posted.
9. Photo Artwork must be digital art.
10. Unlike some contests you may post a story to go along with your work .
11. If you enter, you are expected to vote. It's common courtesy!
12. No re-entering a picture that has already won.

NEW RULE :

13. You must post with your entry what medium and how you processed the artwork(example : Photo, new background, Painted etc or Oil painted, photoshop etc...) If you do not post how you processed it and the medium, you will be disqualified.

Please follow these. If either Chris or I finds that a picture seems to be only "retouched" or seems right out of camera, we will disqualify it from the contest.

Thanks very much and continue creating.

If you have won previous contests and want a large file for print from my collection, pm Tytaniafairy.

Also, it was decided that whomever wins the contest will get a free fairy picture full size through email for you to print of any Tytaniafairy's Faeries/ Elves.

NEW MESSAGE FOR WINNERS :

At the end of each month, a thread with past winners of the month will be posted and we will all take up voting. Whomever wins, Tytaniafairy will personally send that winner a 20 by 30 canvas print of any of her faeries for free. A $200.00 value. Cotton canvas with sateen finish!!!

Tis is like really old so bear with me I cant remember how I did it :-P

Eye was retouched, glass bubble things were rendered on separate layers using a technique from psd tuts and that mental wave explosion one. Color adjustment layers and painting for the iris and skin. Brush's used for the sparkles.....

Model shot in studio with blue gown added woods.Gown was layered and extended all over the forest added fog in layers and blended the gown and fog together .
Her hair was extended and the roots were changed by hand back to blond changed eye color to eerie blue .Put in big crystal ball edited photo from the future in (same model in both pictures) multiple layers smoke around the ball,threw in some lightning from the hands ,painted fingernails.

Image was shot on white background with 2 strobes. A digital background was added and the color manipulated so that the model and the background are of the same color and tone. The crystal ball was added and worked in CS2.

DaveDavis wrote:I bounced a snooted light over her shoulder, off a piece of folded paper in Franciska's hands to light this scene. Then I drew the crystal ball in photoshop using various layers of white circles..

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I don't know how you could have done this any better than you did. I love it!

I wasn't sure what to expect from today's topic but these photos have given me some ideas and desire to shoot something!!!!!!

to everyone.... here is a link to an awesome glass ball tutorial. I followed it exactly the way it was done and it worked perfectly. I see absolutely no reason why it shouldn't work in a situation like everyone is using here.
http://www.lunacore.com/photoshop/tutorials/tut009.htm

Image was shot on white background with 2 strobes. A digital background was added and the color manipulated so that the model and the background are of the same color and tone. The crystal ball was added and worked in CS2.

DaveDavis wrote:I bounced a snooted light over her shoulder, off a piece of folded paper in Franciska's hands to light this scene. Then I drew the crystal ball in photoshop using various layers of white circles..

DaveDavis wrote:I bounced a snooted light over her shoulder, off a piece of folded paper in Franciska's hands to light this scene. Then I drew the crystal ball in photoshop using various layers of white circles..

Image was shot on white background with 2 strobes. A digital background was added and the color manipulated so that the model and the background are of the same color and tone. The crystal ball was added and worked in CS2.

Image was shot on white background with 2 strobes. A digital background was added and the color manipulated so that the model and the background are of the same color and tone. The crystal ball was added and worked in CS2.

Tis is like really old so bear with me I cant remember how I did it :-P

Eye was retouched, glass bubble things were rendered on separate layers using a technique from psd tuts and that mental wave explosion one. Color adjustment layers and painting for the iris and skin. Brush's used for the sparkles.....